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The fact is that a lot of what these companies provide is more utility than innovation. They are now too big to be real innovators and most of their new stuff comes from acquiring technologies and then re-engineering them into their product lines.

The CIO’s internal innovation is based more around the business: coming up with ideas for technology that changes the game or pushing the IT department to do something about the fact that the systems the business is using are driving them mad.

I call it an App Store mentality: make my experience stimulating so that I think about the business and a life free of IT-related stress.

I have enough things to worry about without software updates being one of them.

Innovation is a word that is misused and abused across the IT industry. Are you really innovative?

We all like to think so but when was the last time you met with a small company just because they produce interesting or cool technology?

When did you take the initiative and say to the board: "We are going to get in half a dozen companies you have never heard of to come in and challenge our thinking?"

I am meeting more and more startups that are showing the way forward with the big trends, such as social apps, mobile/tablet and new thinking about data. It cuts through the hype and shows the reality.

CIO Profiles

Only two out of 10 CIOs already see themselves as being digital, according to an IDG and CSC survey.

Only two out of 10 CIOs already see themselves as being digital, according to a cio.co.uk and CSC survey. So how do the majority go beyond their comfort zone and make the transition to becoming a ‘digital CIO’?